| Value |
Category |
| 1 |
Health of mother |
| 2 |
Risk of birth defect |
| 3 |
No money to take care of baby |
| 4 |
Too young to have a child |
| 5 |
Not ready to be a mother |
| 6 |
Wanted to continue schooling |
| 7 |
Did not love the father |
| 8 |
Wanted to delay childbearing |
| 9 |
Wanted to continue working |
| 10 |
Wanted to space child |
| 11 |
Partner did not want child |
| 12 |
Child's sex |
| 13 |
Because of rape |
| 14 |
To avoid shame |
| 15 |
Afraid of parents |
| 16 |
No one to help look after child |
| 17 |
Parents insisted |
| 18 |
Father of child died |
| 19 |
Did not want any more children |
| 96 |
Other |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.